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Eric Katz

Eric Katz joined Government Executive in the summer of 2012 after graduating from The George Washington University, where he studied journalism and political science. He has written for his college newspaper and an online political news website and worked in a public affairs office for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. Most recently, he worked for Financial Times, where he reported on national politics.

May 20, 2016
A prominent Washington, D.C.-area lawmaker is calling on the Obama administration to allow federal employees in the region to work from home more often as the Metro public transit system prepares for major maintenance projects expected to significantly disrupt commutes. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority finalized its SafeTrack plan...

May 19, 2016
House Republicans were forced to deploy controversial tactics on Thursday to block an amendment that would have prevented federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. The amendment to the fiscal 2017 Veterans Affairs Department and military construction appropriations bill, introduced by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y.,...

May 19, 2016
Nearly 30,000 federal employees would receive enhanced retirement benefits under a bill introduced by two Democratic senators on Thursday. The Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., would extend the ability to retire earlier to employees designated in the police series GS-0083....

May 18, 2016
Environmental Protection Agency officials on Wednesday touted progress on swiftly disciplining misbehaving employees, even as they endured the wrath of lawmakers who said their efforts were still falling short. Acting EPA Deputy Administrator Stanley Meiburg told a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that the agency’s new policy of...

May 17, 2016
For most Republicans in Congress, the debate over funding the research into and prevention of the spread of the Zika virus is a standard issue divide over federal spending, offsets and balanced budgets. For Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., however, the clash playing out this week in both chambers represents something...

May 16, 2016
The U.S. Postal Service is allowing salaried supervisors to conduct work set aside for union employees, according to a new report, forcing the agency to waste millions of dollars annually on unnecessary payments. An agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and USPS in 2014 that settled a 40-year dispute...

May 16, 2016
Donald Trump has not always had the best relationships with organized labor, but he has found at least one union at the federal level with which he has a strong connection. The National Border Patrol Council -- which represents more than 16,000 Border Patrol agents -- endorsed the now presumptive...

May 13, 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said health care is one of government’s top three responsibilities -- but apparently that task does not apply to veterans. Or at least not to the extent it is currently involved. Sam Clovis, Trump’s chief policy adviser, this week told The Wall Street...

May 12, 2016
Lawmakers praised the relatively new head of the Transportation Security Administration for cleaning up the troubled agency, but said that after less than one year on the job, he still has a long way to go to fix it. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held its second hearing...

May 11, 2016
The House will soon release its own proposal to reform the U.S. Postal Service, lawmakers announced at a hearing Wednesday. The package may be smaller in scale than the bill in the Senate with bipartisan support, with leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee saying they were committed...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.